Ice-crusher.



No. 844,146. PATENTED FEB. 12,1907.

gii'g 0. T. LARKIN] ICE GRUSHER. APPLIOATION FILED L'PR.1 3.19 06.

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. embodying my UNITED STATES PATIENT @FFIGE.

ORREL TOWN LARKIN, OF PLAT TSBURG, NEW YORK. ice-causnsn.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

Application filed Avril 1S, 1906- Serial No. 311,540,

mold, so that metal of the head may pass through perforations in. the blades, as indicated at 7. Between the blades the under side of the head 1 clined from its longitudinal center outward and upward at both sides, as indicated at 8. By this construction when the device is used lfor crushing ice the fine particles will be l forced outward from between the bladesthat'is, the packing or clogging of ice between the blades will be prevented.

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Be it known that I, ORREL Town LARKIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident l of Plattsburg, in the county of Clinton and l State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ice Crushers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in hand implements for breaking or crushing ice to any desired degree of fineness, the ob I ject being to provide a device of this characl ter that will be simple in construction and so l lar to that above described, except that the arranged that the clogging of line ice behandle 9 is placed at the end of the head, and tween the breaking or crushing blades will i on the head opposite the blades is a tooth 10, be prevented. l designed for splitting large pieces of ice. 1 will describe an ice-erusher embodying The device shown in Fig. 3 is to be opermy invention and then point out the novel I ated by a drawing movement, as the inclines features in the appended claim.

11 extend lengthwise and the blades 12 also Reference is to be had to the accompanyextend lengthwise of'the head. ing drawings, forming a part of this s'pecili- It will be noted in Fig. 2 that the teeth or cation, in which similar characters of referpoints 6 of one blade alternate with the once indicate corresponding parts in all the teeth or points of the adjacent blades, and figures.

therefore the ice may be quickly and finely Figure 1 is a perspective of an ice-crusher crushed. invention. Fig. 2 is a sec- Having thus described my invention, I tional view thereof, and Fig. 3 shows a inodiclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters fication.

, Patent Referring first to the example of my im- An ice-crusher comprising a head, the unprovement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, 1 desigder side of which is inclined upward and outnates the metal head of the implement, to

ward at opposite sides of its longitudinal which is secured a socket member 2 for recenter, and blades secured transversely and ceiving a handle 3, of wood or other suitable l rigidly iii said head, the said blades having material. This socket member 2 is placed perforations receiving metal integral with in the mold when the head 1 is cast, so that the head. metal of the head may pass through perfora- In testimony whereof I have signed my tions 4 in said socket member, as clearly inname to this specification in the presence of dicated in Fig. 2.

two subscribing witnesses. Extended hom the under side of the head ORREL TOWN LARK'IN. are crushing-blades 5, the said blades being Witnesses spaced apart and provided with cutting W. B. JA wEs, teeth 6. These blades are also placed in the I FRANK A. STONE.

is wedge-shaped or in- 

